BURTON, Laurence Junior, a Representative from Utah; born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah,
October 30, 1926; graduated from Ogden High School in 1944; enlisted in the
United States Navy Air Corps and served from January 1945 to July 1946;
graduated from Weber College at Ogden, Utah, in 1948, from the University of
Utah at Salt Lake City in 1951, and from Utah State University at Logan in
1956; took postgraduate work at Georgetown and George Washington Universities,
Washington, D.C., in 1957 and 1958; public relations director and athletic
manager at Weber College, 1948-1956; regional director for American College
Public Relations Association in 1954 and 1955; editor of National Junior
College Athletic Association magazine, 1951-1961; legislative assistant to U.S.
Representative Henry Aldous Dixon in 1957 and 1958; assistant professor of
political science at Weber College, 1958-1960; administrative assistant to Utah
Governor George Dewey Clyde, 1960-1962; delegate, Republican National
Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate
for reelection in 1970, but was an unsuccessful nominee in 1970 to the United
States Senate; died on November 27, 2002, in Ogden, Utah.